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TIIE interest which has been excited, by a more intimate acquaintance with the regions of Xipal, has 
extended to its vegetable productions, and the attention of the lovers of Horticulture and Botany lias, within 
the last few years, been particularly attracted to that quarter. The result has surpassed the most sanguine 
expectation ; and both in the novelty of its extensive Flora* and the splendor of many of its vegetable pro* 
due tions, Nipal has been found to furnish accessions, of the highest value to botanical studies. 
Although, however, the enquiries instituted in this direction, have been highly successful, yet the actu¬ 
al results have been hitherto but partially and incompletely submitted to the public. Soiue short notices 
occur in the travels of Turner, Kirkpatrick, and Hamilton; and a number of descriptions, furnished by the 
latter distinguished naturalist, are published by Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees's edition of the Encyclopedia Bri- 
tannica. A more ample collection is preserved in the Flora Indica of the late Doctor Roxburgh, of which 
two volumes have already appeared; and to these sources of information, the author of the present work 
adds opportunities, particularly his own, which afford him a more copious supply of materials for illustrate 
ing the Flora of Nipal, than were within the attainment of any of his predecessors. 
Besides actual residence in Xipal for the space of a year, under circumstances, far more advantage* 
